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  1. Uppercut

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Tbf some of those games were so comically one-sided that Spurs coming away with anything can only be described as an Act of God.
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    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Madrid were trying to score in periods the game was tied (at 0-0 they even succeeded). City just played around their press so consistently that it forced them back. I don’t think any decent teams park the bus any more, unless it’s very late or they’re a man down. It’s not been consistently...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Filippo Inzaghi would lose his **** after scoring the 7th in an 8-0 win over Tier 6 opposition in a pre-season friendly, a miskick onto his arsecheek that should have been disallowed for 4 different reasons. That's the celebration energy every footballer should aspire to.
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    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    They should let the new DoF come up with a plan for how best to build the team, and then let him pick a manager as part of that. There’s a chance they stick with ETH because they’re not big fans of whoever’s available, it saves paying him off, and he’s hardly the worst manager out there. But...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    I don’t think he should stay in the summer. You can say all kinds of stuff in mitigation and there are bigger problems to fix first. But he’s very, very obviously not doing a good job.
  6. Uppercut

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Yeah tbf there’s a bigger gap between Arsenal and City’s remaining fixtures than I thought. On second thoughts I’d have City as 2nd favs.
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    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    City are well in it but I make them 3rd favourites. They’re 3rd and currently playing the worst football of the 3, and 7 games isn’t much time to turn that around.
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    Football stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    I’m not a huge fan of Wilson. His writing isn’t very good, and he tends to settle on a narrative then cherry pick evidence to support it. He picks such interesting subjects that sometimes the books (or parts of the books) are very good anyway. But I’d definitely steer clear of the one about...
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    Official Rugby Thread

    I don't think so. Maybe if they had concrete evidence of harm, deliberately hid it from the players, and enriched themselves as a result. But on the face of it I'm kind of repulsed by the idea that a small standardisation body is responsible for the harms resulting from a mass participation...
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    Post in this thread if your football team hasn’t been top of any league since NYD 2017

    I’ll have you know we were briefly top in January 2022
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    Road to Euro 2024

    He looked pretty special against Liverpool, but yeah he’s not shown it for long and we botch player development a lot.
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    Greatest Sportspersons/athletes of All Time

    The thing with Messi is that he was the best in the world in both the unsubtle ways, constantly banging in/setting up amazing goals, and in the subtle ways, doing Iniesta/Ozil/David Silva stuff. I don’t think anyone else has ever been the undisputed best at both at once? Usually just being the...
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    Greatest Sportspersons/athletes of All Time

    I would definitely take Messi over Djokovic, mostly because I think Messi was even better than he gets credit for.
  14. Uppercut

    Official Rugby Thread

    France kinda make everyone’s attack look great while making their defence look terrible.
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    Official Rugby Thread

    I’m much more worried about England than Scotland going forward. Scotland strike me as a team that’s not so well coached, but where the coaches stay in place by taking credit for a much better generation of players. England really look like they’re building something. I’ve been told that...
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    Official Rugby Thread

    Scotland had our number in the first half but the second half pressure has been relentless. Get a good sense from this game of why we don’t like taking the 3 points, even though we didn’t get the try it meant Scotland were stuck in their 22 for about 25 minutes straight.
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    Official Rugby Thread

    The Wales attack has been absolutely tragic all 6N, but Italy are still impressive here.
  18. Uppercut

    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Yeah the Mane one was pretty scary tbh, they were both running full pelt directly towards each other. It was unfortunate for Mane because no forward is pulling out in a situation like that, but the ref had no choice. There was hardly any force in the Doku one, and most of it came from...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    I thought the Liverpool pen shout was meh, you almost never get those without VAR. Unwritten rule that high boot doesn’t apply to defenders in their own box. It’s not even especially dangerous or painful taking studs to the torso in that situation. People sort of assume that since shin or knee...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    I remember Rooney getting a red for one like that against Cardiff years ago. Definitely the right call. A tactical foul isn’t an opportunity to boot someone as hard as you can and have it stay a yellow.

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